I've already responded to security side of the argument in depth so I'll
shut up now. :) I will, however, continue to play devils advocate as far as
the reasons to use partitions. I just can't resist. :)
> And besides the security
> issue here, it is nice to organize things, so that administration is
easier,
> and it is also easier to pass the tasks on to someone else. If I know
that
> my sql files go one my d: drive, web content on the e: drive, etc, etc, I
> and anyone who does the job in the future will have a much easier time.
This is a matter of preference. As a system administrator, I prefer to walk
up to a system and find all the applications installed into their default
directory on the c drive. That invariably minimizes the time it takes my to
find what I'm looking for.
> Also, say in the future I decide I really need a separate machine for the
> SQL server, or if I want to switch from say IIS to Apache, I can just
> uninstall, and then format the partition, and reuse it.
I guess I don't understand what your getting at since I don't understand how
deleting and recreating a partition will make it any easier to switch from
one Web server to another. It seems to me that it would be easier/faster to
delete the directory in question than to reformat an entire partition.
> If I have one big
> partition, I either have to clear off EVERYTHING and start again from
> scratch, or I have to try to uninstall the SQL/IIS server,
Why would you have to uninstall the SQL server to switch the Web server? How
would partitioning the drive affect this?
> along with all
> the data, registry entries, backups etc, which we know will not be a
clean,
> non-problematic uninstall.
Reformatting a partition will not clean up orphaned registry keys. Again, I
don't understand how backups and registry entries will be affected by
switching the Web server as it pertains to whether or not the Web server is
installed on its own partition.
> Partitioning is definitely the way to go, I doubt you will ever find an
> Enterprise where the OS is on the same partition/drive as the web server
and
> content.
I agree that partitioning is a great tool to employ, but I think the
circumstances that necessitate partitioning are not as common as we would
like to believe. Don't get me wrong, with Windows NT 4, we always created
partitions, but all our reasons for doing so have been addressed with
Windows 2000. Given that partitions are generally an unwarranted
complication for us.
Benjamin S. Rogers
Web Developer, c4.net
Voice: (508) 240-0051
Fax: (508) 240-0057
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